the box, he ambles - and can only do so because Chelsea's full backs never cross the halfway line and Makelele never goes further than 10 yards into the opposition's half.
He's a good Premiership player, but is shown up time and time again at international level.

i've ever seen. an unusual proportion of his goals are deflected, his passing is normally average at best (woeful last night) and he's fat.

he's also arrogant, aggressive and essentially a cheat. he's the worst player i can think of for surrounding referees, is completely ungraciuous to any criticism and has gone unpunished for more bad and reckless tackles than i can remember.

he's done nothing in an england shirt.

and he's a complete cunt.

he deserved to be punched. although, as an aside, anyone notice the chelsea players kicking that fan once he was on the ground? i might go and find a youtube to check...

Don't make me laugh. Whilst he is obviously one of the top 5 centre backs in the world, the man is a prick. And a fucking racist to boot, but thats all been covered up because he is 'Englands' John Terry.

He scores over twenty goals a season from midfield and he's an ever-present in a premiership (and other cup) winning side. He's been poor for England but I think most sides in the Premiership would be delighted to have him in their side.

I don't buy this thing about him being a cunt either. His speech when winning player of the season (only shite players win that) was actually very moving and showed him to actually be a player who thinks about the game intelligently and quite humble with it.

with shooting on sight. If you score over 20 goals a season from midfield and are a major factor in your team winning the Premiership, then I cannot see how that is at all bad. I don't particularly like the man and I don't think he's an amazing player but your criticisms just seem stupid.

Chelsea have the money to do what they want, whether it comes to outbidding other clubs players or silencing officials. I honestly wouldn't be suprised if thet bought the FA's silence, as there is a distinct lack of integrity in soho square.

as the style suits his game. Less so at international level as more guile and dexterity is needed. The same could be said of Steven Gerrard, and most of England's attacking players. Which is why we generally don't do very well.

Though I don't particularly like him or Terry. I've never seen an interview or article about them where they have come across well.

then he lost out in "ability to move" genes. Obviously no-one's accusing him of being clinically obese, but next you'll be telling me that Ronaldo (not christiano) or Andy Reid or Neil Ruddock back when he was playing for Swindon, train every day at the top level (or league 1 level for Neil 'buy me some new shorts these are too small' Ruddock) and therefore can't be fat.

Lampard's disliked more than he could be because he's not the most sporting player, no-one's suggesting he's the least. The fact remains that he's been extremely effective in a Chelsea side which suits his limited (or at least slow) mobility, his tendency to shoot and so-on, but rob him of two/three players ahead of him who are much better than the opposing teams defenders (a la Chelsea against the top champions league teams, england against virtually anyone) and/or remove someone playing behind him in a makelele roll and ask him to defend, and again, he's not all that.

He's a good player fortunately placed to achieve great things, but if tomorrow abramovic sold up and lampard was forced to go to Roma or Milan or Barcelona or possibly even Man U (he's classier than o' shea, fletcher and carrick of course, but man u require their central midfielders to defend) I think he'd get shown up. I also can't conceive of a sensible way of fitting him into the england side.

all this rascism stuff is true, it would be in the referee's report, which would be sent to the FA and would have to be dealt with.

Spurs players wouldn't keep quiet about it.
Why should Graham poll keep quiet about it? - he dislikes Chelsea and likes the limelight it would bring.
I have not heard a single thing about this - neither has anyone in my office which consists of Spurs, Arsenal, Everton and Palace fans.

remember reading things in a couple of places regarding alleged racist comments by Terry. Let's be honest though, this wouldn't be the first time the FA would have swept something under the carpet with regards to an England captain. Alan Shearer and Neil Lennon springs to mind...

I dislike Terry, I dislike Cole, I dislike Lampard. Every time a decision goes against Chelsea (and I know they're not the only side) these three are the first to surround the ref / linesman. They think they're above the laws of the game. It was the same when Vieira was at Arsenal, the same with Gary Neville.

i don't know who i'd play instead now, and i think if lampard was dropped then an attack of lennon, gerrard, cole and rooney should cause plenty of problems, with a degree of balance and security behind.

i do think he needs to do the simple thing more though. and i don't know what state he'll be in by the time he returns

Gerrard's been more prolific for England than Lampard in the last 12 months. When he's not scoring, Lampard contributes little to England. When Gerrard's not scoring he's still creating and working his arse off.

a lot more and actually has a better shot on him than Lampard. He just chooses not to shoot so much. I think Gerrard scored the same number of goals as Lampard when they played a whole season in the same position.